They can keep the prices same easily. This move is all about profits, not consumers and definitely not suppliers.

]]>By: Anonymoushttp://www.slashgear.com/apple-tells-component-suppliers-it-wants-a-10-discount-21160642/#comment-119148
Wed, 22 Jun 2011 03:43:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=160642#comment-119148Maybe he wouldn’t have had to endure the shame of Dancing With the Stars….
]]>By: Anonymoushttp://www.slashgear.com/apple-tells-component-suppliers-it-wants-a-10-discount-21160642/#comment-119147
Wed, 22 Jun 2011 03:41:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=160642#comment-119147“I am sure that Apple wants to protect margins and that is part of the reason for demanding cuts.”They want to increase their margins – that is a different story. Though not unusual, when orders are in millions of units per month… 10% is not a big price cut in component procurement. It’s rather average.
]]>By: Anonymoushttp://www.slashgear.com/apple-tells-component-suppliers-it-wants-a-10-discount-21160642/#comment-119102
Tue, 21 Jun 2011 21:35:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=160642#comment-119102source?

I’m sure woz was crying all the way to the bank..

]]>By: Anonymoushttp://www.slashgear.com/apple-tells-component-suppliers-it-wants-a-10-discount-21160642/#comment-119101
Tue, 21 Jun 2011 21:33:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=160642#comment-119101when new more powerful devices debut with no price increase a la ipad @ $499 and iPhone 5 @ $199… this is about keeping prices the same..
]]>By: plunderhttp://www.slashgear.com/apple-tells-component-suppliers-it-wants-a-10-discount-21160642/#comment-119088
Tue, 21 Jun 2011 20:01:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=160642#comment-119088I do hope they tell him to get lost – greedy man.
]]>By: First Namehttp://www.slashgear.com/apple-tells-component-suppliers-it-wants-a-10-discount-21160642/#comment-119068
Tue, 21 Jun 2011 18:28:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=160642#comment-119068Before he got rich off Apple Computer, Steve Jobs screwed Wozniak out of $2150 1970s dollars that Wozniak was rightfully owed from an engineering job he and Jobs did for Atari. That’s over $10,000 in today’s dollars. You can say this particular story being true would take their greed to a new level, but I think Steve already has. The man is, and always was, a shamelessly greedy individual.

If he’s willing to do that kind of thing to his cash-strapped college friends just barely scraping by you can bet he’d be willing to force a 10% discount from his company’s faceless suppliers.

]]>By: First Namehttp://www.slashgear.com/apple-tells-component-suppliers-it-wants-a-10-discount-21160642/#comment-119069
Tue, 21 Jun 2011 18:28:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=160642#comment-119069Before he got rich off Apple Computer, Steve Jobs screwed Wozniak out of $2150 1970s dollars that Wozniak was rightfully owed from an engineering job he and Jobs did for Atari. That’s over $10,000 in today’s dollars. You can say this particular story being true would take their greed to a new level, but I think Steve already has. The man is, and always was, a shamelessly greedy individual.

If he’s willing to do that kind of thing to his cash-strapped college friends just barely scraping by you can bet he’d be willing to force a 10% discount from his company’s faceless suppliers.

I bet the savings go to those amazing $100 iTunes gift cards for the Back to School promo.
/s

]]>By: juvushttp://www.slashgear.com/apple-tells-component-suppliers-it-wants-a-10-discount-21160642/#comment-119032
Tue, 21 Jun 2011 15:02:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=160642#comment-119032WTF? this has to be a joke. There is no way this article is real. Nobody is making money off Iphones except Apple. Foxcomm keeps having losses because they haven’t figured out how to make money on making Ipads and Apple has the balls to ask suppliers for price cut on products they make 30% margins on ?

I don’t believe this story. That would take their greed to a new level.

]]>By: Quixotichttp://www.slashgear.com/apple-tells-component-suppliers-it-wants-a-10-discount-21160642/#comment-119029
Tue, 21 Jun 2011 14:38:00 +0000http://www.slashgear.com/?p=160642#comment-119029They overcharge for their devices and they have the balls to ask for a price cut? I would tell them to go F themselves.